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Old 04-05-2005, 19:33   #12
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Originally Posted by NousDefionsDoc
Is crude not considered a strategic national asset?
a fair amount of transshipping occurs in the oil business...technically, one could consider swapping US oil from the Pacific basin to Canada for Canadian oil in the Upper Midwest as exporting...

wish you woulda asked this question 14 years ago when i was working on my thesis at the JFK Center...i had some answers then...
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